PEACE AND FOOD
SANCTUARY FOR WILD DUCKS
AN UNUSUAL GIFT.
(DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPIRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAULS ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 21st June. _ The Association of Audubon Societies, which specialises in the protection of bird life, announces the receipt of an unusual gift of. 26,000 acres of land in Louisiana, as a memorial to the late Paul Rainy, the noted explorer and naturalist. The gift is made by his sister, Mrs. Grace Rogers, who also has provided a large endowment to keep theland perpetually planted with cereals sufficient to. feed one hundred millions of wild ducks every winter. The territory will be carefully guarded against hunters, in order that it may become truly a wild life sanctuary. The .announcement states that continued abundance of wild fowl must depend largely upon cultivated sanctuaries. The reclamation of seventy-seven million acres of swamp land for purposes of agriculture has restricted appallingly the areas upon which wild ducks feed. The present plans call for the -planting of eight different kinds of cereals to afford the ducks a varied diet. Once attracted hither, ducks will never be frightened by the sound of a gun, and under such conditions they will grow more tafae than domestic pigeons.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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200PEACE AND FOOD Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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